Stay Warm, Be Careful

Nocturne

Vanessa Lowe

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.6 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

This crazy thing happens in NYC as night approaches – as rush hour picks up and the streets get evermore hectic than normal, delivery men on bikes start racing through the streets to get people their restaurant food while it’s still hot. Many New Yorkers expect this service that is intrinsic to the city, yet they often view these men on bikes as a menace and a threat to public safety. Cesar works 60 hours a week delivering food, mostly for tips. He says they hate him until they need him.

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0:00.0	From KCRW, this is nocturne.
0:06.0	From KCRW, this is nocturne. Okay, so my husband likes chicken franches.
0:15.0	The Chinese... Sometimes I'll get lasagna.
0:22.0	Sushi. Or... Usually Indian... times I'll get lasagna sushi sushi or usually Indian.
0:24.7	Indian.
0:25.7	To get a Italian hero.
0:27.1	Italian sometimes.
0:28.2	Tiramisu for dessert.
0:30.2	Diner food.
0:31.2	And if we order in Chinese, we'll probably get some one ton soup, maybe an egg roll, perhaps a shrimp dish with rice.
0:39.0	Yes, I get food delivered to my apartment all the time.
0:42.0	We get food delivered to my apartment all the time.
0:42.8	We get food delivered to our apartment several times a week.
0:46.2	There's a place right downstairs,
0:48.0	so I really shouldn't order from them, but I do.
0:50.4	Only when I'm really, really lazy, yeah. It's very shameful. I probably shouldn't have said anything, but yeah.
0:55.0	The Italian food is really hot. The Chinese food is not as hot.
1:01.0	Could be that. Italian food just stays hot. It could be that. Italian food just stays hotter longer than Chinese food.
1:07.0	If I'm ordering in, yeah, it's usually kind of like critical mass, work too late, you know, got home late, starving to death.
1:15.0	If you just had a long day and don't feel like going out, or if you're just, you know, at home reading a book and you don't want to be like interrupted by other people it's nice to just be able to not be bothered.
1:27.0	Sometimes it arrives too soon. Sometimes it arrives and you're not ready for it.
1:34.0	Literally, sometimes it'll be five minutes and you have no idea how they were able to prepare it and get it over to you that fast.
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